Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — HANLY WOULDN’T SEE “MRS. Ton.” [ARTICLE]

HANLY WOULDN’T SEE “MRS. Ton.”

While at Lafayette Saturday and Sunday the writer learned a little something of the parole application of T. J. McCoy, the exbanker. Tbe matter is “still pending,” and no action has yet been taken. When the board met at Michigan City this month Mrs. T. J. McCoy went up there and in person plead for her busband’s release. Some of the board wanted her to see Governor Hanly, who was also there, and have him intimate his desires in the matter. Accordingly she tried to arrange for an interview with the governor but be absolutely refused to see her at all, and at a dinner given at Warden Reed’s home in honor of the governor and the parole board, he took occasion to criticise tbe board for being to > lenient in tbe matter of granting pardons, and is said to have shown in language that was too plain to be mistaken that he against tbe granting of a parole to Tom McCoy. He is said to have referred in this talk to the highwayman who holds up the passerby at the point of a pistol and takes his money or springs from a dark alley and drops bis victim with a blow over the head with a bludgeon, as being more worthy of clemency than the man who, having tbe confidence of his neighbors and tbe community in which he lives, gathers in their money and spends it in riotous living or gambling, robbing them of alt their savings and just as surely and in a more despicable manner than the one who uses»the pistol or bludgeon One of Tom’s lawyers is quoted as having stated that he had the premise that the pending cases against his client—the two pending in tbe Newton circuit court — would be dismissed, and that they should have been dismissed before this according to promise. He is said to have stated that he had so informed tbe parole board, that this matter might not stand in the way of their granting a parole. Whether he had any grounds for making such a statement we of course are unable to say.